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Topic: Pocky War!! 2010 The Panel (Read 21523 times)

Ninjas gather and choose your side of Pocky: Chocolate or Strawberry. You will receive your honorable Pocky sword and tunic to rise and prove that you are the best flavor. The battle will be single duels between the clans' best ninja. If more join our cause, then we may have squads of 5 fight side-by-side, and representatives of other clans in the land of Pocky to aid in our struggle.

The rules of engagement are simple. Tag the enemy with your weapon before they tag you. Tags anywhere from the base of the neck to the groin defeat the enemy, so do hits on two limbs. Two arms, two legs, or one of each. An arm shot causes the arm to be lost behind your back, though you still fight with your spare hand. Leg shots cause the victim to kneel and walk on their knees, or plant their leg-struck foot on the ground, being able to pivot on, but not remove the foot or else be defeated. Shots to the same dead arm are a kill, but shots to the same dead leg do not count. Shots to the hand on a weapon and a foot on the ground do not count, also do shots to the head and neck. When you are hit in a location you call out what was hit, and call "dead!" if it was a kill shot. After the ninja have fought, the two Hokage step forward to finish the fight, and the defeated one must taste the winner's Pocky.

A modification to the skit could be that the two Hokage have a son and daughter on their own side, in love with each other. At the end of the battle, the loser's child begs them to try the other flavor. The beaten hokage likes it and declares that the two flavors will war no longer. The son and daughter use their love to forge a Pocky stick of peace, Choco-strawberry. Suddenly a rabid Pocky fangirl steals the choco-strawberry stick, and the two clans together chase her offstage.

Who would like to be a part of this mighty skit?Name: Forum Name:Chocolate or Strawberry Ninja:

Because ninjas are deceptive, if one side seems to have too many, they may really be spies for the other clan. If one side has too many, I will have enough of them side with the other clan to balance out the sides.

And by the way both of us will have shields to use. Stawberry Hokage gets a Cheez-it shield. Chocolate Hokage will have a Ritz cracker shield. There will also be a mercenary for each side with an odd-shaped pocky sword. One will wield a Blueberry Pocky keyblade. The other will unleash a giant white chocolate flatblade (either Tetsusaiga or buster sword). So if there are any Sora or Roxas, Inuyasha or Cloud cosplayers that want in, sign up and sword up.

Then would a lamp shade work instead? If the crowd sees the hair, they'll know it's Roxas. Wait! You have an Org. 13 Roxas. What if you did that one, but with pink felt letters on the back and front that spell Pocky.

I'll be paying a visit to the Pocky Club to see who among their strongest members, are strong enough to fight for their flavor. By the way, wave 1 will be grunts armed with shortswords nicknamed "bitesabers", while wave 2 will be elites with longswords, nicknamed "lightsavers."

Sounds bery sekrit indeeds. One thing that's always epic about samurai/ninja scenes is the grand final rush. The two charge, leap and slash, and whoever the quicker one was...the loser says a parting compliment and slumps over. In Amtgard if both players' shots hit at the same time within half a second of each other, then it's considered a mutual kill. Both players die and neither one wins. This may happen a lot when our grunts and elites battle in the first two waves. But then when it comes down to us, we have a normal match, then when one is struck down, both will jump back and do a grand final rush. After we both run by drawing the blade across the other's stomach, I will say the first line, whether I lose or not. My line will be specific to which flavor is superior. At that point one of us will fall over, the children will come out, and the rest plays out.

Two things come to mind, however. First, to do the grand rush, we would have only longswords, while the mercenaries we hired use the special weapons, the keyblade and buster sword. This however allows us to use shields, making it harder to find an opening and therefore more of a duel between master warriors. Second, if we didn't want to depend on the final slash to decide who wins, then using the special weapons ourselves would more than define it. I have a buster sword, with longer reach but requires more effort to use, while Strawberry Hokage has the keyblade, which is shorter but has teeth to hook and trap the longer weapon. So it seems victory is in favor of chocolate. But as said above: the longer they are, the harder it is to attack a closer opponent.

So what would be better? Shields and longswords, or epic special weapons?

You may adopt one. He can be from any source. Also at MEWcon the demo will not be sword making, just playing with swords and things.. Come and share the mighty painless action of epic sword tag, using Amtgard rules.

In the end result that there will be no Strawberry aire, then the chocolate daughter would come in and stop the battle, and she would beg her father to end this war and try both flavors at the same time.

When spring rolls around, everyone that has a part will need to find the following in their size:T-shirt or longsleeved shirt, and pants that match. While I will be making belts and headbands colored in pink and brown, enough for each member. The fangirl can come in regular cosplay, or schoolgirl cosplay if you can.

I have made some super-light swords that only the two hokage will use.The PVC longswords will be used by the ninja warriors.

I brought the giant sword to combat for the first time. it performs clumsy and attacking with fast shots makes it whip and therefore wouldn't count in a battle. So instead we may have two keyblades made in spring, or we will duel with lightning fast sword and shield.

The only tricky part I'm seeing is people taking their shots and knowing if they're dead or not. Also to decide if we're sending in one ninja at a time up to three, or sending in squads of 4 ninjas at a time to look like an army. Squad battles may get confusing as to who got killed by what and if we can round up so many people, though it looks like a full-on war. One-on-one duels don't look so war-like but would still be epic and have a cleaner view of who won. As for the Hokage duel, regardless of who wins or loses, after three matches the battle is stopped by the children and the skit wraps up.

So there will be some who are trying to do two skits one after another?